immigration
Driver's license bill for undocumented workers
About 30 activists gathered at the Waite House Community Center in Minneapolis on February 25 to strategize ways to move forward with a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. Mujeros En Liderazgo (Women in Leadership), an organization dedicated to social and immigration issues, organized the meeting.MORE »
Immigrants, refugees still linked to home countries
How do immigrant lives remain linked to their home countries? When are these ties problematic? How do the links differ from generation to generation and from one immigrant group to another? Immigrant leaders and immigration scholars at the University of Minnesota addressed these questions February 1 at the University of Minnesota. The conference, titled Linked Lives: When are Immigrant and Refugee Engagements Problemetized? was sponsored by the Institute for Global Studies, the Immigration History Research Center, the Department of Sociology, the European Studies Consortium, and the MN Department of Education's Refugee School Impact Grant. MORE »
Seattle +10 - MN Week of Action: Refugees of the Global Economy
It's been 10 years since environmentalists, union members and faith and social justice activists took to the streets of Seattle to protest the convening of the 1999 World Trade Organization. The Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition will mark this anniversary - and champion a positive vision for global trade - with a series of events Nov. 30 to Dec. 5.
